List of speakers of the Assam Legislative Assembly

Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly
Seal of Assam
Incumbent Biswajit Daimary since 21 May 2021
Assam Legislative Assembly
Style	The Hon’ble (formal) Mr. Speaker (informal)
Member of	Assam Legislative Assembly
Reports to	Government of Assam
Appointer	Members of the Legislative Assembly
Term length	During the life of the Tripura Legislative Assembly (five years maximum)
Deputy	List of deputy speakers of the Assam Legislative Assembly

The following is a list of the Speakers of the Assam Legislative Assembly, ^[1] and their deputies.

Speakers of the Assembly

Assam Province

#	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Party
1	Babu Basanta Kumar Das		7 April 1937	11 March 1946	Indian National Congress
2	Debeswar Sarmah		12 March 1946	10 October 1947
3	Laksheswar Borooah (INC)		5 November 1947	3 March 1952

Assam State

#	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Political Party
1	Kuladhar Chaliha		5 March 1952	7 June 1957	Indian National Congress
2	Devakanta Barua		8 June 1957	15 September 1959
3	Mahendra Mohan Choudhury		9 December 1959	19 March 1967
4	Hareswar Goswami		20 March 1967	10 May 1968
5	Mahi Kanta Das		27 August 1968	21 March 1972
6	Ramesh Chandra Barooah		22 March 1972	20 March 1978
7	Jogendra Nath Hazarika		21 March 1978	4 September 1979	Janata Party
8	Sheikh Chand Mohammad		7 November 1979	7 January 1986	Indian National Congress
9	Pulakesh Barua		9 January 1986	27 July 1991	Asom Gana Parishad
10	Jiba Kanta Gogoi		29 July 1991	9 December 1992	Indian National Congress
11	Debesh Chandra Chakravorty		21 December 1992	11 June 1996
12	Ganesh Kutum		12 June 1996	24 May 2001	Asom Gana Parishad
13	Prithibi Majhi		30 May 2001	19 May 2006	Indian National Congress
14	Tanka Bahadur Rai		29 May 2006	19 May 2011
15	Pranab Kumar Gogoi [2]		6 June 2011	19 May 2016	Indian National Congress
16	Ranjit Kumar Das		1 June 2016	30 January 2017	Bharatiya Janata Party
17	Hitendra Nath Goswami		30 January 2017	20 May 2021
18	Biswajit Daimary		21 May 2021	Present

Deputy speakers of the Assembly

The following is a list of the deputy speakers of the assembly. ^[3]

#	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Moulvi Muhammad Amiruddin	7 April 1937	1946
2	Bonily Khongmen	14 March 1946
3	R.N. Baruah	6 March 1952	1 April 1957
4	R.N. Baruah	10 June 1957	28 February 1962
5	D. Hazarika	31 March 1962	28 February 1967
6	M.K. Das	31 March 1967	26 August 1968
7	A. Rahman	20 September 1968	9 November 1970
8	J. Saikia	13 November 1970	9 June 1971
9	R.N. Sen	24 May 1971	14 March 1972
10	Golok Rajbanshi	6 April 1972	3 March 1978
11	Sheikh Chand Mohammad	30 March 1978	6 November 1979
12	G. Ahmed	13 November 1979	19 March 1982
13	N.C. Kath Hazarika	25 March 1983	18 August 1985
14	Bhadreswar Buragohain	1 April 1986	10 April 1990
15	Balobhadra Tamuli	22 October 1990	8 January 1991
16	Debesh Chakraborty	1 August 1991	20 December 1992
17	Prithibi Mahji	23 March 1993	11 May 1996
18	Nurul Hussain	13 June 1996	18 August 1998
19	Renupoma Rajkhowa	14 May 1991	17 May 2001
20	Tanka Bahadur Rai	3 April 2002	14 May 2006
21	Pranati Phukan	31 May 2006	16 May 2011
22	Bhimananda Tanti	6 June 2011	19 May 2016
23	Dilip Kumar Paul	3 June 2016	8 May 2018
24	Kripanath Mallah	26 September 2018	4 June 2019
25	Aminul Haque Laskar	31 July 2019	2 May 2021
26	Numal Momin	21 May 2021	Present

Pro tem Speaker

List of Pro tem Speakers

• Pranab Gogoi 2011
• Phani Bhusan Choudhury 2016
• Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdary 2021

References

1. "List of Speakers since 1937". Assamassembly.gov.in. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
2. "Members of 13th Assembly sworn in - Pranab Gogoi elected Assam Speaker". The Telegraph. 7 June 2011. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
3. "List of Deputy Speakers since 1937". 28 August 2021. Archived from the original on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 4 March 2022.